Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Questioneers (Chapter books) volume 1
Description
When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
Rosie is working with Aunt Rose and her friends, the Raucous Riveters, on designing a new invention, but when her designs keep failing, Rosie starts to lose hope until her friends Iggy and Ada offer some help
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title-offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.
This edition of The Island of Dr. Moreau includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and...
Author
Series
Dead Sea squirrels volume 3
Formats
Description
Michael learns that--like the Thessalonians in the Bible--he will prosper if he works hard when Pearl the 2,000-year-old squirrel helps him study for his math test.
5) Plunked
Author
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch, and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
Description
It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meier's extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife Judith, her mother, and film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the large group settles in for days of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Growing up with an abusive father and his brother Gates, now an imprisoned felon, Mason Hunt has made a success of his life as the attorney for the Commonwealth of Virginia, until his brother attempts to have Mason use his legal influence to get him out of jail.
10) Deadline man
Author
Formats
Description
He's a man whose life is so intertwined with his job that we know him only as the columnist. He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn't afraid to stir up trouble and keeps his life--including his multiple lovers and his past--in safe compartments. It's all about to be violently upended when he goes out on what seems like the most mundane of assignments, looking into a staid company that never makes news. But from the moment one of his sources takes...
Author
Series
Evan Reed mystery volume 2
Formats
Description
Tim Donovan is a Catholic priest with a guilty conscience-though not in the way you'd guess. And Katherine Donne is a Parisian socialite who long ago kicked her self-respect to the curb-for good and for ill. And much closer, we have a group of men whose fortunes, graying temples and positions in life are distinguished and enviable. But their morals? Anything but. And that's where Evan Reed comes in. Evan (short for Evangeline) is a highly principled...
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 5
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
48 p. ;
Description
Tallulah loves the grace and elegance of ballet and can pirouette perfectly but at dance camp struggles to learn tap.
13) Bookie & Cookie
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Description
When their usual routine is disrupted, Bookie and Cookie, best friends who live on opposite pages, learn to bridge their differences and explore new experiences together.
14) The red hat
Author
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"Once upon a time, high atop the world, there lived a boy named Billy Hightower and the wind. When a new neighbor appears--a girl in a red hat--Billy Hightower can hardly wait to meet her and introduce himself. But the wind has other ideas"--
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 21 cm
Description
When the Supreme Being and his son decide that being supreme isn't for them any more, it's inevitable that things get a bit of a shake-up. It soon becomes apparent that our new owners, the Venturi brothers, have a very different perspective on all sorts of things. Take Good and Evil, for example. For them, it's an outdated concept that never worked particularly well in the first place. Unfortunately, the sudden disappearance of right and wrong, while...
Author
Series
Betty Bunny books volume 4
Formats
Description
When a young rabbit quits soccer after a disappointing first game, her family encourages her to keep trying.
Author
Series
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"Confident Frannie convinces cautious Pepper to give skateboarding a try, but Pepper's attempts are not all smooth sailing. Luckily, she has a supportive and enthusiastic friend to cheer her on and help her realize her potential"--
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 1
Publisher
Alfaguara Infantil y Juvenil
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Follows the experiences of a youth whose family and island community entirely depend on the king crab trade that constantly risks his father's life, a situation that is further threatened by a new fleet owner's intentions of selling away the island's livelihood.
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Description
Adriana, Jimena, and Martina are three girls with dreams and invisible wings to help them achieve them, but first they must face a band of villains who try to weigh them down with doubt, insecurity, unfair treatment, and social expectations.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title